Political Quotes

“when just a couple of days ago the Iranians tested an intermediate range ballistic missile, one that has the range to strike Israel, our administration was once more embarrassed, because they had predicted a number of times that the Iranians could not achieve this capability until sometime late next year. Well, the Iranians were a year ahead of schedule. Only one person predicted they would be able to do it much earlier in this body, and that was the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon). He is working on a piece of missile defense legislation. The gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Saxton) is putting in legislation a number of us are cosponsoring which directs the President to conduct an emergency program to build a defense against the systems the Iranians are developing right now. Mr. Speaker, now is the time for the President to act. With the same urgency with which our enemies are building the ballistic missiles, we must act with the same urgency to build defenses against those missiles.”